COVID-19 Friday.Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, has scheduled a press conference for 12:30 p.m.
Global News will stream the event live here. The importance of preserving the history of the COVID-19 pandemic The update comes exactly one year after Manitoba reported its first infections from the coronavirus.Since that case more than 32,000 Manitobans have contracted COVID-19 and, as of Thursday, 911 have died.While vaccination efforts have seen more than 99,000 doses administered across the province, health officials have said two more-contagious variants of the virus have been identified in Manitoba over the last few weeks.On Thursday the province warned of three possible public exposures to a probable.